“When You Come Home, We Are Going To Arrest You” – South Africa Will Arrest Its Citizens Serving In The IDF

South Africa, which took Israel to the International Court of Justice over baseless ‘genocide’ claims, now went further against its 70,000 Jewish population.

The country’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, said that her country’s citizens who fight in the IDF or alongside them in Gaza against the Hamas terror group will be arrested when they return home.

South Africa’s government has been deepening its rift with Israel, which has been broken since South Africa sued Israel in the International Court of Justice with its baseless claims in Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, which broke out after Hamas attacked Israel on Simchas Torah.

“I have already issued a statement alerting those who are South African and are fighting alongside or in the IDF: We are ready. When you come home, we are going to arrest you,” Pandor said to rapturous applause from the audience.

The FM called for its citizens to be activists and urged them to protest in front of embassies that support Eretz Yisroel. In addition, she called for them to boycott the Israeli airline El Al, which stopped flying to Johannesburg shortly after South Africa brought Israel to the ICJ).

The foreign ministry said, those with dual South African-Israeli citizenship could be stripped of their South African citizenship.

U.S. lawmakers are trying to rebuke South Africa for its attacks against Israel diplomatically, accusing the country of being a mouthpiece of Hamas, Russia, and China with the U.S.-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Act. The legislation would require a full review of the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa, given South Africa’s recent positioning and coordination with America’s adversaries.

The number of South African Yidden making an Aliya has risen in the past years: 577 in 2021, 471 in 2022, and skyrocketed since South Africa brought Israel to the ICJ in December.

A big thank you to the donor who I secured from South Africa for providing equipment for the elite IDF Yahalom unit which will be used for an amazing war-zone project they are working on. It will help to speed up the effort required to locate terrorists & hostages in Gaza.

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